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Eleanor cross - Definition and Overview |
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The Eleanor crosses were stone monuments in the shape of a cross that Edward I of England erected in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile at the twelve places where her funeral procession stopped overnight on its route from Harby, Lincolnshire, to Westminster Abbey in London in 1290.
Those twelve places were:
The only three crosses still standing are the ones at Waltham Cross, Northampton, and Geddington. The cross at Charing Cross is a copy of the original.
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